Why NEET Exam is Necessary?
NEET exam has been made a necessity for joining medical courses and is conducted by the National Testing Agency.
The onset of NEET has been surrounded with lots of controversies. With lots of students, teaching faculty and even the educational “biggies”, opposing the inception of this medical entrance, NEET exam surely has surpassed all the turbulent waters and come across as a survivor. But the furor it generated continues to bother many.
On the other hand, the origin of NEET Exam has also gained acceptance and much more. It is being appreciated and being quoted to be a well-thought decision on the part of the Government and the judiciary who passed the decision to implement NEET.
But what is NEET Exam? This is one of the questions which we will first take up.
NEET or the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test is for the medical aspirants who have passed the 12th Board examination and is conducted by the National Testing Agency. The exam comprises of the 45 questions from Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Zoology. The aspirant has 3 hours to answer 180 questions and for each correct answer the aspirant gets 4 marks and for every wrong answer, 1 mark is deducted.
So let us try to understand as to why NEET exam is necessary?
- Common Entrance: The system of a NEET Exam decreases the burden on the respective Universities and Institutes to conduct their individual exams. Plus the man force and the resources which go into conducting these entrance exams are also saved.
- Reduced Pressure: Now that many of the entrance exams have been assimilated to be one exam, the burden on the students has reduced by a large extent. Many students who initially wanted to apply for the medical colleges in the State Universities but had CBSE or ICSE syllabus or the ones who had State syllabus but aimed to apply for the Central Universities had trouble in following the different set of pattern of questions. NEET exam does away with all this confusion by providing a centralized syllabus on whose basis the NEET questions are formed.
- Equal Opportunity: With NEET exam, there would be less interference by the educational mafia who used to block seats for their own candidates. With the onset of NEET such rigging of seats will be reduced.
- Increased Transparency: Now there is fair paper trail of every candidate who applies for NEET exam. And if any discrepancy or back office corruption is found, there would be severe repercussions.